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The Marshall Star for June 18, 2024
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 21:58:59 +0000
California Teams Win $1.5 Million in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge By Savannah Bullard After two days of live competitions, two teams from southern California are heading home with a combined $1.5 million from NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge.  Since 2020, competitors from around the world have competed in this challenge with the […]
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“Utterly Dismayed”: Air Force Engineer Resigns as Dissent Against Gaza War Slowly Spreads Within Military
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

“I don’t want to be working on something that can turn around and be used to slaughter innocent people."

The post “Utterly Dismayed”: Air Force Engineer Resigns as Dissent Against Gaza War Slowly Spreads Within Military appeared first on The Intercept.

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Columbia Task Force Finally Weighs In: Yes, Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 23:25:16 +0000

The task force revealed its plans not in a communiqué to faculty and students — but instead in an Israeli newspaper article.

The post Columbia Task Force Finally Weighs In: Yes, Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism appeared first on The Intercept.

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Using AI for Political Polling
2024-06-12T11:02:27Z

Public polling is a critical function of modern political campaigns and movements, but it isn’t what it once was. Recent US election cycles have produced copious postmortems explaining both the successes and the flaws of public polling. There are two main reasons polling fails.

First, nonresponse has skyrocketed. It’s radically harder to reach people than it used to be. Few people fill out surveys that come in the mail anymore. Few people answer their phone when a stranger calls. Pew Research reported that 36% of the people they called in 1997 would talk to them, but only 6% by 2018. Pollsters worldwide have faced similar challenges...

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Columbia Law Review Is Back Online After Students Threatened Work Stoppage Over Palestine Censorship
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 04:09:26 +0000

The board had proposed appending a statement that would have undermined a Palestinian scholar’s article. The students rejected it.

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Ukraine war briefing: ‘Drone sanctions’ burn Russian oil reserves
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 23:39:12 GMT

South Korea says 10,000 containers carry suspected North Korean arms for Russia; claim that Russians beheaded captured defender. What we know on day 847

A Ukrainian defence source confirmed a drone attack was used to blow up oil storage tanks near the town of Azov in Rostov, southern Russia. Agence France-Presse said the defence source described it as a “successful” attack and said it caused “powerful fires in the installations”. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) “will continue to impose ‘drone sanctions’ on Russia’s oil refining complex and reduce the enemy’s economic potential, which provides the aggressor with resources to wage war against Ukraine”.

Video published by Russia’s emergencies ministry showed thick smoke and flames billowing out of what appeared to be multiple oil storage tanks over a large area. About 200 Russian firefighters and emergency personnel were sent in. The Rostov region sits directly across the border from Ukraine and is home to the operational headquarters overseeing Russia’s invasion.

A Russian drone attack left a man, 70, in hospital and damaged a multi-storey residential building in Lviv city, Andriy Sadovyi, the mayor, said on Wednesday. It hit the village of Malekhiv within the city district and damaged many windows in other residential buildings, he said. The city is the administrative centre of the Lviv oblast in western Ukraine, on the border with Nato member Poland.

Ukraine said Russian forces were fighting to enter the outskirts of Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region. “The enemy keeps trying to advance to the micro-district Novy in the town of Chasiv Yar,” a Ukrainian military official said in a briefing.

Farther south, the military said Moscow’s forces were also pushing towards Pokrovsk, threatening a key road, which could complicate Ukrainian supply lines.

Ukraine’s air force said it downed 10 Shahed attack drones launched by Russian forces over Monday night into Tuesday.

Ukraine’s prosecutor general accused Russian forces of beheading a Ukrainian serviceman in the eastern Donetsk region. “The fact of decapitation of a Ukrainian defender was recorded in the Donetsk region,” said Andriy Kostin. He said Ukraine had documented nearly 130,000 war crimes committed by Russia.

National grid operator Ukrenergo said Ukraine would face rolling electricity blackouts throughout Wednesday after Russian strikes on Ukrainian power plants.

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said China’s support for Russia’s defence industry was prolonging the Ukraine war and “has to stop”. Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian earlier urged Nato to “stop shifting blame” over the Ukraine war after the alliance’s chief, Jens Stoltenberg, accused Beijing of worsening the conflict through support of Russia.

The South Korean defence minister, Shin Wonsik, told Bloomberg News that South Korea had identified at least 10,000 shipping containers suspected to be containing artillery ammunition and other weapons sent from North Korea to Russia. Those containers could contain up to 4.8m shells, Shin said. Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, is visiting North Korea. “Putin is expected to seek closer security cooperation with North Korea, especially military supplies such as artillery shells that are necessary to seize a chance to win,” Shin told Bloomberg.

Ukrainian officials have already started preparatory work to organise a second peace summit, the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, has said after the first conference led by Ukraine was held over the weekend in Switzerland. Yermak said a joint plan needed to be figured out by member states first, a process he expected to take several months.

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How North Korea’s lucrative trade in human hair is helping it skirt the impact of sanctions
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 23:47:50 GMT

Pyongyang’s trade in wigs and false eyelashes is booming, offering a vital revenue stream to help it pursue its nuclear ambitions

They almost certainly don’t know it, but western owners of shiny new wigs and false eyelashes could owe their look to North Korean slave labour.

In recent years, a booming trade in human hair has helped to sustain North Korea’s isolated economy, softening the impact of international sanctions and providing Pyongyang with vital revenue to pursue its nuclear ambitions.

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Former Trump national security adviser urges resumption of nuclear testing
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 22:44:43 GMT

Robert O’Brien says US should abandon moratorium but experts say proposal would hasten global nuclear arms race

Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Robert O’Brien, widely tipped to play a leading role in a second Trump presidency, has advocated the resumption of nuclear testing, and the possible renewed production of plutonium and weapons-grade uranium.

Arms control experts said O’Brien’s proposals would accelerate the global nuclear arms race and backfire in terms of US security, handing greater advantages to Russia and China.

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Russia’s Putin to visit North Korea, amid growing military cooperation
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 23:02:12 +0000
The pair will use the visit to pledge support for each other, rebuffing U.S.-led efforts to isolate Putin over Ukraine and Kim over his pursuit of nuclear weapons.
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Ukrainian Sailors Are Using Telegram to Avoid Being Tricked Into Smuggling Oil for Russia
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Contract seafarers in Ukraine are turning to online whisper networks to keep themselves from being hired into Russia’s sanctions-busting shadow fleet.
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Mark Rutte lined up to be Nato secretary general after Orbán deal
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:12:20 GMT

Netherlands PM will replace Jens Stoltenberg after making promise not to deploy Hungarian forces in Ukraine

Mark Rutte, the outgoing Dutch prime minister, is expected to become the next head of Nato after winning over Hungary’s prime minister with a promise not to deploy Budapest’s forces or spend its money supporting Ukraine.

Viktor Orbán, the leader in Nato seen as closest to Russia, announced he had dropped his objections after discussions with Rutte, prompting the current secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, to declare that the selection process would end “very soon”.

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The Guardian view on the US and vaccine disinformation: a stupid, shocking and deadly game | Editorial
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 17:26:03 GMT

Donald Trump’s military ran a covert campaign to discredit China’s Sinovac vaccine at the height of the pandemic

In July 2021, Joe Biden rightly inveighed against social media companies failing to tackle vaccine disinformation: “They’re killing people,” the US president said. Despite their pledges to take action, lies and sensationalised accounts were still spreading on platforms. Most of those dying in the US were unvaccinated. An additional source of frustration for the US was the fact that Russia and China were encouraging mistrust of western vaccines, questioning their efficacy, exaggerating side-effects and sensationalising the deaths of people who had been inoculated.

How, then, would the US describe the effects of its own disinformation at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic? A shocking new report has revealed that its military ran a secret campaign to discredit China’s Sinovac vaccine with Filipinos – when nothing else was available to the Philippines. The Reuters investigation found that this spread to audiences in central Asia and the Middle East, with fake social media accounts not only questioning Sinovac’s efficacy and safety but also claiming it used pork gelatine, to discourage Muslims from receiving it. In the case of the Philippines, the poor take-up of vaccines contributed to one of the highest death rates in the region. Undermining confidence in a specific vaccine can also contribute to broader vaccine hesitancy.

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Putin in Pyongyang live: Russia and North Korea sign strategic partnership pact
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 08:28:53 GMT

Putin is in North Korea on a historic trip expected to deepen trade and security ties

• Vladimir Putin receives warm welcome in North Korea
• See all our Ukraine war coverage

Mark Rutte, the outgoing Dutch prime minister, is expected to become the next head of Nato after winning over Hungary’s prime minister with a promise not to deploy Budapest’s forces or spend its money supporting Ukraine.

Viktor Orbán, the leader in Nato seen as closest to Russia, announced he had dropped his objections after discussions with Rutte, prompting the current secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, to declare that the selection process would end “very soon”.

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North Korea’s Kim declares ‘full support’ for Russian war in Ukraine
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 23:56:51 +0000
The U.S. and its allies are concerned about the growing military cooperation between the two states as Moscow is hungry for munitions to use against Ukraine.
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Vladimir Putin receives warm welcome in North Korea
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:29:54 GMT

Russian president makes first visit to country in 24 years as anti-west relationship deepens

• Putin in North Korea – follow it live
• Russia and North Korea: what can they do for each other?

Vladimir Putin has arrived in North Korea for a summit with Kim Jong-un, amid US warnings against any agreement that could add to military pressure on Ukraine and raise tensions on the Korean peninsula.

Making his first visit to the reclusive country since 2000, the Russian president flew to Pyongyang to be greeted by huge welcome banners, cheering crowds and Russian flags.

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Putin praises North Korea’s ‘firm support’ for war ahead of Pyongyang visit – as it happened
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:50:38 GMT

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China has urged Nato to “stop shifting blame” over the war in Ukraine after the western military alliance’s chief accused Beijing of worsening the conflict through support of Russia.

Nato’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, on Monday called for China to face consequences for what US officials have called a major export push to rebuild Russia’s defence industry.

There are reports Putin will be staying at the Kumsusan guesthouse in Pyongyang, which also housed Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a 2019 state visit to North Korea in 2019.

The mansion is located near the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, where Kim Jong-un’s father Kim Jong Il, and grandfather Kim Il Sung, lie in state.

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Russia and North Korea: what can they do for each other?
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:58:19 GMT

The Russian president’s visit to Pyongyang signals a deepening relationship between two isolated countries

• Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updates

China accounts for more than 90% of North Korea’s trade and has been its most dependable aid donor and diplomatic ally. But as Vladimir Putin’s imminent visit to Pyongyang proves, the secluded state’s behaviour is being increasingly influenced by its security and economic ties with Russia.

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Rethinking Democracy for the Age of AI
2024-06-18T11:04:08Z

There is a lot written about technology’s threats to democracy. Polarization. Artificial intelligence. The concentration of wealth and power. I have a more general story: The political and economic systems of governance that were created in the mid-18th century are poorly suited for the 21st century. They don’t align incentives well. And they are being hacked too effectively.

At the same time, the cost of these hacked systems has never been greater, across all human history. We have become too powerful as a species. And our systems cannot keep up with fast-changing disruptive technologies...

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Australia news live: Littleproud contradicts deputy on nuclear vetoes from community; police search for man in Mackay after woman shot dead
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 08:38:50 GMT

Coalition names sites at Collie, Mt Piper, Callide, Tarong, Liddell, Northern energy in South Australia and Loy Yang as potential nuclear power station locations. Follow the day’s news live

• Peter Dutton names seven potential nuclear power station sites but avoids questions on cost
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Sussan Ley says Coalition nuclear policy will be a ‘sensible proposition’

I just wanted to return to Sussan Ley’s appearance on Sky News this morning, where she was asked how a potential future Coalition nuclear policy would circumvent nuclear bans:

We’ll work through all that. We have a sensible proposition to put to the Australian people and I know that when we talk about nuclear people are starting to tune in, understanding that if 19 of the 20 biggest economies in the world are using nuclear, if it makes sense for cleaner baseload power, because it’s zero emissions, if it helps us get to 2050 net zero, if it does all of the things that we want it to do in terms of emissions, and in terms of securing affordable cheaper power for Australians … why would people not consider it? And I believe they will.

Now, the government says it’s renewables only. We can see that that’s actually not going to happen. The government talks about hydrogen, it’s not at scale. It’s not even something they can demonstrate works in that short timeframe and they talk about batteries that aren’t going to provide the storage for their renewables.

So, they are in a complete mess over this, and they need to be put on the sticky paper and asked what they are going to do for families, households and manufacturing businesses.

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Bruce Lehrmann knew Brittany Higgins did not consent to sex, Lisa Wilkinson’s lawyers tell court in appeal documents
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 08:25:47 GMT

Exclusive: Defamation trial judge found on balance of probabilities Lehrmann was ‘recklessly indifferent to whether or not there was consent’

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Bruce Lehrmann was not “indifferent” to Brittany Higgins consenting to sexual intercourse, but instead knew she was not consenting, Lisa Wilkinson’s lawyers have told the federal court in fresh arguments ahead of the former Liberal staffer’s defamation case appeal.

In April Justice Michael Lee found the former Liberal staffer was not defamed by Wilkinson and Ten when The Project broadcast an interview with Higgins on Monday 15 February 2021 in which she alleged she was raped in Parliament House.

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NSW police forced to hand over ‘less lethal’ tactics manual to watchdog after woman’s bean-bag round death
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 07:24:02 GMT

Judge says it would make ‘a nonsense’ of law enforcement conduct commission’s role if it was not provided with all relevant material

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Internal materials relating to the death of a woman who was shot with a bean-bag gun must be handed over to the police watchdog, a court has ruled.

Krista Kach, 47, died after a 10-hour standoff with police in Newcastle in September 2023 after a bean-bag round punctured her body and affected her heart.

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Chris Bowen labels Coalition’s nuclear plan a ‘risky scam’ as premiers affirm state bans
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 07:03:56 GMT

Energy minister’s comments come as Nationals leader David Littleproud refutes deputy’s claims plants won’t be built if communities were opposed

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Chris Bowen has labelled the Coalition’s nuclear plan a “risky scam”, citing the fact owners of six of the seven proposed sites for power plants won’t sell and five are located in states with their own bans on nuclear power.

In a move that frustrated some on his backbench on Wednesday, Peter Dutton revealed the sites but without providing costings for the proposed government-owned nuclear power plants, nor an estimate of the amount of electricity to be added to the system and or justification for the ambitious 2035-37 timeframe for the first two plants.

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‘Raises red flags’: Coalition nuclear power plan met with widespread scepticism from business groups
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 06:19:19 GMT

Australian energy sector and industry groups warn of risk of cost blowouts and destroying private sector investment

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The Coalition’s promise to build seven nuclear power plants starting as soon as 2035 has been met with widespread skepticism by Australia’s energy sector and industry groups, who have warned about the risks of cost blowouts and destroying private sector investment.

AGL Energy and Origin Energy, two of Australia’s largest power producers, also reiterated their concerns about the proposed government intervention.

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Congress is probably getting another Donald Trump loyalist with Brian Jack’s victory Tuesday night in the...
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:53:19 +0000

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Trump impeachment tie vaults Democrat to victory in Virginia’s 7th
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:33:57 +0000

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Brian Jack, a former top adviser to President Donald Trump, is the projected winner of the...
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:20:51 +0000

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Trump Media shares continue to drop, as SEC move threatens to ding shareholders
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:18:00 GMT
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. — the company behind former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform — said Tuesday that regulators allowed some of its investors to resell certain securities and made certain warrants available for exercise.
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Trump loyalty at issue in Virginia’s most heated GOP primary
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 23:21:45 +0000

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Georgia runoff features Jan. 6 rioter and former Trump official
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 22:54:32 +0000

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Trump loyalty, Georgia ties at issue in congressional race
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 22:48:26 +0000

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Trump declares love for Milwaukee at rally days after calling it a ‘horrible city’
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 22:44:08 GMT

Ex-president blames Democrats and offers conciliatory remarks to city hosting Republican national convention

Donald Trump made a brazen bid for support in the vital swing state of Wisconsin on Tuesday by declaring his affection for its biggest population centre, Milwaukee, just days after denigrating it as “a horrible city”.

Needing to explain his own words to a city that will host the Republican national convention next month, the former president predictably chose to tackle the problem head-on at a campaign rally in neighbouring Racine, about 30 miles from Milwaukee along the shore of Lake Michigan.

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Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest can sue Meta over Facebook scam ads, US court rules
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 22:13:25 GMT

The Australian mining magnate can try to prove that Meta was negligent in allowing scam ads on Facebook, judge says

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A US judge has rejected Meta Platforms’ bid to dismiss a lawsuit by billionaire Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest over scam Facebook advertisements that use his likeness to promote fake cryptocurrency and other fraudulent investments.

In a decision on Monday, US district judge Casey Pitts in San Jose, California, said Forrest could try to prove that Meta’s negligence in allowing the ads breached its duty to operate in a commercially reasonable manner.

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At his rally in Wisconsin on Tuesday afternoon, Donald Trump assailed President Biden’s move to allow...
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 21:48:34 +0000

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Trump defends RNC site after reportedly criticizing it: ‘I love Milwaukee’
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 21:28:38 +0000

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Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn, other allies plead not guilty in Arizona
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:58:11 +0000
All 18 Republicans indicted in connection with alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Arizona have now pleaded not guilty.
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Here’s who was charged in the Arizona 2020 election interference case
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:26:50 +0000
Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis and other Trump allies were indicted in connection with their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona.
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The unbearable heaviness of thinking everything is good for Trump
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:40:28 +0000

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The American Election That Set the Stage for Trump
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 17:54:55 +0000
In the early nineties, the country turned against the establishment and right-wing populists thrived. A new history reassesses their impact.
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Fauci’s memoir reveals clashes with Trump, other private moments
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 17:20:41 +0000

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Analysis: Trump has unveiled an agenda of his own. He just doesn’t mention it much.
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:24:03 +0000

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Trump has unveiled an agenda of his own. He just doesn’t mention it much.
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:45:23 +0000
Dubbed “Agenda 47,” Donald Trump’s plans should he return to the White House are documented by his campaign website.
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Trump campaign blasts Biden’s plan for undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:45:18 +0000

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Analysis: Anthony Fauci got a last-minute glimpse into Trump’s 2020 state of mind
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:33:19 +0000

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Anthony Fauci got a last-minute glimpse into Trump’s 2020 state of mind
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:23:59 +0000
Two days before the 2020 election, Trump was insistent he would win. Was it bluster — or foreshadowing?
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New ad from conservatives attacks a Trump-backed candidate in South Carolina
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:33:49 +0000

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Trump to speak a few miles away from city he reportedly criticized
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:50:42 +0000

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“Utterly Dismayed”: Air Force Engineer Resigns as Dissent Against Gaza War Slowly Spreads Within Military
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

“I don’t want to be working on something that can turn around and be used to slaughter innocent people."

The post “Utterly Dismayed”: Air Force Engineer Resigns as Dissent Against Gaza War Slowly Spreads Within Military appeared first on The Intercept.

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Crypto Scammers Are Targeting Trump’s MAGA Supporters
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0000
After Donald Trump’s campaign announced it would accept cryptocurrency, the operators of a host of fraudulent websites have sought to hustle his supporters.
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Jockeying intensifies for No. 2 slot on Trump’s ticket
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 23:59:16 +0000
Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail, with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.
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Mike Johnson’s Intelligence Committee choices anger some GOP lawmakers
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 23:28:04 +0000
Speaker Mike Johnson named two controversial members to the House Intelligence Committee — Reps. Scott Perry and Ronny Jackson — sparking concerns about politicizing a crucial committee. He did so partially because Donald Trump wanted him to.
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Former president Donald Trump on Monday gave a reelection endorsement to Rep. Celeste Maloy (R-Utah), who...
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 21:32:44 +0000

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In new ad, Hogan seeks distance from Trump
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:34:54 +0000

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Indiana GOP delegates reject Trump’s candidate for lieutenant governor
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:40:53 +0000

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Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has made bashing electric vehicles a cornerstone of his campaign,...
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:17:54 +0000

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Analysis: Trumpworld keeps overstating Trump’s support among Black voters
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:03:05 +0000

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Trump leads Biden by double digits in Iowa, new poll shows
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 15:44:51 +0000

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Trumpworld keeps overstating Trump’s support among Black voters
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 15:06:04 +0000
It’s not just the mostly-White event in Detroit — but it’s that, too.
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Trump’s Brazen Pact with the 0.001 Per Cent
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
After reaping huge profits in the Biden years, some Wall Street billionaires and tech barons are throwing their support behind the President’s rival, who is desperate for their money.
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Hunter Biden’s Conviction and Trump’s Risk to the Justice Department in 2024
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
“It defies imagination to think that this is a case that would have existed in any other context than the context of Biden being in the White House,” Susan B. Glasser says.
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Maturing Nicolò Barella and Italy driven by pain of missing World Cup
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 07:00:28 GMT

Inter midfielder’s partnership with Jorginho is earning media plaudits after Euro 2024 win over Albania

Nicolò Barella did not relish being reminded he has scored more international goals than any other player in Italy’s squad at Euro 2024. “That worries me a bit,” he said when the detail was put to him at the end of the 2-1 win against Albania on Saturday. “It means I’m getting old.”

At 27, Barella is hardly in the twilight of his career. There are plenty of older players representing the Azzurri in Germany, and yet only one outfielder, Jorginho, has been capped more times. The Arsenal player made his 55th Italy appearance against Albania. Barella is on 54.

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A moment that changed me: I walked into the party, shy and anxious. I walked out a whole new woman
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 06:00:28 GMT

When I boarded the train at Beijing I felt timid, a cautious traveller. But a chaotic and vodka-soaked party set me off on a very different path

In 2001, after spending a year studying in Beijing as part of our degree, two friends and I decided to travel to Mongolia and Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railway. We did everything as cheaply as possible, to the extent that I was terrified we were going to be flung off the train at the Mongolia-Russia border, because we’d got our visas from a tiny, dodgy-looking agency in a random tower block in Beijing.

Being worried was pretty much my default state at that time. I found talking to strangers difficult, and struggled to raise my hand in class. I was always terrified of making mistakes. Though it wasn’t a devastating shyness, I envied the way that friends and classmates always seemed at home in different groups and situations – a feeling that had always eluded me.

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Labour suspends candidate over 'pro-Russian' post
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 02:39:31 GMT
Andy Brown, standing in Aberdeenshire North and Moray East, is suspended by the party pending an investigation.
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As Kyiv holds first Pride since invasion, LGBTQ+ troops demand equality
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 20:17:58 +0000
Pride month in Ukraine is also about resisting Russia and demanding better in Ukraine, where LGBTQ+ soldiers do not enjoy the same rights or benefits as heterosexual troops.
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Populist, nativist, neofascist? A lexicon of Europe’s far right
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:47:15 GMT

There are numerous terms to describe the wide array of far right parties, but what do all they mean – and do we always use the right ones?

They are known, variously, as far right, national-conservative, radical right, anti-Islam, nativist, and Eurosceptic. Also as extreme right, populist, “alt-right”, neofascist, anti-immigration, nationalist, authoritarian, and assorted combinations of the above.

As the dust settles on the results of this month’s European parliamentary elections, it is worth examining what some of the terms routinely used to describe Europe’s wide array of far-right parties mean – and whether they are always the right ones.

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Parkour group damages historic Italian building in failed stunt
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:56:21 +0000
Team Phat’s stunt in Matera ended with a stone falling off a historic site and the jumper injuring himself. It comes as scrutiny of traveler behavior increases worldwide.
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Far-right violence a ‘significant’ threat to German democracy, minister warns
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:42:16 GMT

Report finds ‘alarming’ rise in extremism, with Islamist groups and cyber-attacks also posing dangers

A surge in far-right violence, Islamist extremism and cyber-attacks from Russia and China are putting German democracy under “significant” threat, the interior minister, Nancy Faeser, said as she presented a government report on domestic and foreign adversaries.

The wars in Ukraine and Gaza are having strong ripple effects on German security, driving radicalism and attacks, the study by the office for the protection of the constitution (BfV) found.

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Former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra indicted for insulting monarchy
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:33:29 GMT

Thaksin appears in court accused of lese-majeste relating to 2015 interview with South Korean media

The former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a powerful backer of the ruling government, has been formally indicted for allegedly insulting the monarchy almost two decades ago.

One of Thailand’s most influential political figures, Thaksin, 74, appeared at Bangkok’s Ratchada criminal court accused of lese-majeste. The case relates to an interview he gave to South Korean media in 2015. He was granted bail on Tuesday.

Thaksin was ousted by a military coup in 2006 and spent 15 years in self-imposed exile to avoid charges he said were politically motivated. He returned to Thailand last year, arriving back in the country on the same day his party Pheu Thai formed an unlikely coalition with his former enemies from the conservative military establishment – a deal that was in both sides’ interest because it kept a popular, youthful pro-reform party out of power.

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ISIS Created Fake CNN and Al Jazeera Broadcasts
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
One video focused on giving ISIS credit for a terror attack that Russian disinformation blamed on Ukraine. “It was essentially fake news to debunk fake news,” says an expert.
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Solstice: Celebrating the return of light – in pictures
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 07:00:08 GMT

Every 21 June for over 10 years, Claudine Doury has traveled from St Petersburg to Maloyaroslavets in Russia, to the island of Lake Ives in Belarus, and to Kaunas, Vilnius and the Polish and Latvian countryside, to witness the summer solstice. The night of the solstice is a traditional celebration whose roots lie in pagan festivals closely linked to the forces of nature and the worship of the sun

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Kim backs Ukraine invasion as Putin visits North Korea
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 06:26:04 GMT
Kim speaks of a "new era" after Putin hails their "firm friendship" on his first visit in 24 years.
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Tuesday briefing: How millions are living through Sudan’s ‘harrowing’ humanitarian crisis
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 05:47:39 GMT

In today’s newsletter: The war has devastated Sudan, destroying much of the country and leaving 18 million facing acute hunger

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Good morning.

The war in Sudan has caused destruction throughout much of the country. And with every passing week the conflict seems to get worse between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – a paramilitary group who say their main goal is to establish democracy, though the frequent human rights abuses they commit do not support this claim.

Conservatives | Jeremy Hunt said Liz Truss’s economic ambitions were a “good thing to aim for” and her disastrous mini-budget hadn’t left an impact on the economy, according to two leaked recordings obtained by the Guardian. The chancellor was recorded at a meeting of students when he said he was “trying to basically achieve some of the same things” as the former prime minister, but that he was doing it “more gradually”.

Israel | Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the Israeli war cabinet that had been overseeing the conflict in Gaza, rebuffing his far-right allies who had been seeking seats, and apparently moving to solidify his grasp on decision-making over the fighting with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah across the Lebanese border.

Italy | At least 10 people died and dozens were missing after two separate shipwrecks close to the Italian coast, rescuers said. Ten bodies were found on Monday in the lower deck of a wooden boat in the central Mediterranean by rescuers from Nadir, a ship operated by the German charity ResQship.

Germany | Eight alleged members of the German far-right Reichsbürger are to go on trial accused of a plot to violently overthrow the state, in the third in a row of similar court cases being held across the country. The defendants, including a GP, a celebrity chef and an astrologer, are accused of serving as the plot’s leadership council and, prosecutors say, were set to become a cabinet in waiting if the group’s plan overthrow the government had succeeded.

UK news | Officers who hit an escaped cow with a car “probably did the right thing at the time” even if it looks “horrendous”, a union leader and farmer has said. A video showing a police car hitting the calf on Friday night on a residential street in Staines-upon-Thames was met with widespread outrage, including from the RSCPA which criticised it as “disproportionate”.

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‘This country gave me a lot’: the Vietnamese people staying in Ukraine
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 03:00:00 GMT

People across Ukraine have united in the face of the Russian threat and its Vietnamese community is no exception

When Russia invaded Ukraine two years ago, Tung Nguyen drove his parents from their home, in the city of Chernihiv, to the border with Poland. Then, he returned to Kyiv and began to volunteer, bringing food and medicines to under-siege Chernihiv. Before long, he had decided to sign up and fight in the Ukrainian army.

Nguyen is part of Ukraine’s Vietnamese community, a sizeable but often hidden minority in the country. Some Vietnamese people left Ukraine after the Russian invasion, but others have stayed, particularly those from the younger generation, many of whom were born in Ukraine and are Ukrainian citizens.

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Cheap and Lethal: The Pentagon’s Plan for the Next Drone War
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 14:59:24 +0000

UAVs continually kill civilians, but the U.S. military wants to expand its arsenal with an army of new, mass-produced kamikaze AI drones.

The post Cheap and Lethal: The Pentagon’s Plan for the Next Drone War appeared first on The Intercept.

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North Korea: Why Putin and Xi are courting Kim
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 08:50:00 GMT
The war in Ukraine has shifted the balance of power between Moscow, Pyongyang and Beijing
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Berkeley returns to build-to-rent market amid London housing shortage
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 08:47:09 GMT

Housebuilder aims to create 4,000 private rental homes in UK capital and south-east over next decade

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The housebuilder Berkeley is to plunge back into the private rental market for the first time in a decade by launching a build-to rent arm to tackle the “severe shortage” of properties in and around London.

The company, which built 3,500 private-sale homes last year, will establish the build-to-rent business, which aims to create 4,000 homes in London and the south-east over the next decade.

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Upbeat inflation news may be too little, far too late for Sunak
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 07:29:52 GMT

It will take time for voters to forget the financial toll from the highest inflation in four decades – and time is not on the PM’s side

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After almost three years, the UK’s annual inflation rate is back to the government’s 2% target. That ought to be good news for Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives – but given the state of the opinion polls it looks like being far too little, far too late.

First the good news. The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show price pressures are continuing to abate. The headline rate of inflation fell from 2.3% in April to 2% in May and there were also declines in two closely watched measures of underlying inflation.

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Levelling up has failed in Stoke-on-Trent. For hope and optimism there, look to the arts | Charlotte Higgins
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 07:00:27 GMT

From community arts to theatre to ceramics, projects across the Potteries are bringing energy and optimism to a city still reeling from decades of decline

On the edge of Hanley, one of Stoke-on-Trent’s six towns, sits a little patch of five streets of Victorian terraces that were once marked for demolition. But that plan foundered, and instead, in 2013, the council decided to sell the homes – bought under the compulsory purchase scheme – for £1 each. One of those who bought a house was the artist Anna Francis. A few years later, fellow artist Rebecca Davies moved there too. Now they are running one of the most remarkable community arts projects I have ever seen.

Francis, Davies and their neighbours are turning an old pub into a creative centre for the people of this place – people who have been through a tough time as, in the long wake of the decline of Stoke-on-Trent’s ceramics, steel and mining industries, their area was condemned to oblivion and its amenities stripped away. But that hardly begins to describe the energy and optimism of the Portland Inn Project. It is an urban regeneration scheme that actually asks the people who live here what they want, rather than chasing them out, building more expensive homes, and replacing them with shinier, better-off people.

Charlotte Higgins is the Guardian’s chief culture writer

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UK inflation eases to 2% in May, hitting official target for first time since July 2021
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 06:41:55 GMT

Upbeat figures bolster Rishi Sunak’s election hopes as price pressures continue to ease

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UK inflation fell to 2% in May, returning to the official target rate for the first time in nearly three years.

In a boost to the Bank of England’s efforts to bring down the consumer prices index, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said price pressures eased between April and May.

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Oceans group takes UK government to court over oil and gas licences
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 04:00:26 GMT

Issuing licences in the North Sea without accounting for environmental impact was unlawful, Oceana UK says

A marine conservation group has initiated legal action against the UK government, claiming the Conservatives’ decision to issue North Sea oil and gas licences without taking into account their impact on the environment was unlawful.

Oceana UK, part of an international conservation organisation, said that in issuing 82 licences, Claire Coutinho, the secretary of state for energy security, and the North Sea Transition Authority, ignored advice from independent government experts about the potential effects on marine protected areas (MPAs).

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The Marshall Star for June 18, 2024
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 21:58:59 +0000
California Teams Win $1.5 Million in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge By Savannah Bullard After two days of live competitions, two teams from southern California are heading home with a combined $1.5 million from NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge.  Since 2020, competitors from around the world have competed in this challenge with the […]
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Supermassive black hole roars to life as astronomers watch in real time
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:29:18 +0000
A similar awakening may one day occur with the Milky Way's supermassive black hole
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Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid
2024-06-18T13:49:54+00:00

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Indian engineers warn of prolonged blackouts amid searing heatwave
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:32:55 GMT

Increasing use of fans, air coolers and air conditioners is placing ‘serious’ strain on grid in north of country

Engineers in India have warned of the possibility of prolonged power outages in the north, where a heatwave has brought misery for millions of people.

Demand for electricity has soared due to fans, air coolers and air conditioners being run constantly, placing a strain on the grid in Delhi and elsewhere in the north. Manufacturers of air conditioners and air coolers report sales rising by 40-50% compared with last summer.

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Instead of Mining the Deep Sea, Maybe People Should Just Fix Stuff
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 07:00:00 +0000
A new report contends that deep sea mining is not only an environmental risk, it’s also not going to help meet the world’s renewable energy needs.
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What are the main UK parties promising on climate and is it enough? – podcast
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 04:00:03 GMT

Last week more than 400 scientists signed an open letter to political parties urging ambitious action on the environment to prevent making Britain and the world ‘more dangerous and insecure’.

Now that the main parties’ manifestos have all been released, Ian Sample is joined by the global environment editor, Jon Watts, and the biodiversity reporter, Phoebe Weston, to find out what the manifestos have to say about nature and climate, and whether anyone is promising the level of action scientists are asking for

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Light-Based Chips Could Help Slake AI's Ever-Growing Thirst for Energy
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Optical neural networks, which use photons instead of electrons, have advantages over traditional systems. They also face major obstacles.
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Happy Seventy-eighth Birthday, Mr. Ex-President
Thu, 13 Jun 2024 23:34:56 +0000
If ever there were a case for age-related diminishment of a candidate, Donald Trump is it.
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Donald Trump’s trade hawk is plotting behind bars
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:48:56 +0000
Peter Navarro’s dark vision of the global economy could shape Trump 2
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Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:38:15 +0000

Mozilla, the maker of the popular web browser Firefox, said it received government demands to block add-ons that circumvent censorship.

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Using AI for Political Polling
2024-06-12T11:02:27Z

Public polling is a critical function of modern political campaigns and movements, but it isn’t what it once was. Recent US election cycles have produced copious postmortems explaining both the successes and the flaws of public polling. There are two main reasons polling fails.

First, nonresponse has skyrocketed. It’s radically harder to reach people than it used to be. Few people fill out surveys that come in the mail anymore. Few people answer their phone when a stranger calls. Pew Research reported that 36% of the people they called in 1997 would talk to them, but only 6% by 2018. Pollsters worldwide have faced similar challenges...

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UAW Endorses Nebraska Underdog Threatening to Unseat a Republican Senator
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 18:17:35 +0000

Dan Osborn, running as an independent, has racked up endorsements in a race that could help determine Senate control in 2024.

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Joe Biden’s Cruel Border Shutdown Follows in Clinton and Obama’s Footsteps Too
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 22:00:26 +0000

The draconian restrictions on asylum-seekers owe a lot to Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, but the path was paved by Democrats.

The post Joe Biden’s Cruel Border Shutdown Follows in Clinton and Obama’s Footsteps Too appeared first on The Intercept.

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Caught on Secret Audio
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:35:30 +0000

“One side or the other is going to win,” Alito told a person he thought was a right-wing activist.

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Would America dare to bring down a Chinese bank?
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:26:59 +0000
Janet Yellen promises sanctions for those supporting Vladimir Putin’s war
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Inside Donald Trump’s hush-money trial: three key testimonies – video
Fri, 31 May 2024 02:35:05 GMT

Twelve jurors in New York have presented their fellow Americans with a simple question: are you willing to elect a convicted criminal to the White House?

On Thursday, Donald Trump was found guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in a criminal hush-money scheme to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. The verdict makes him the first president, current or former, to be found guilty of felony crimes in the US's near 250-year history. Regardless, the conviction does not disqualify Trump as a presidential candidate or bar him from again sitting in the Oval Office.

Trump, who opted not to take the stand during the trial, has denied wrongdoing, railed against the proceedings and ahead of the verdict compared himself to a saint: “Mother Teresa could not beat these charges. The charges are rigged,” he said on Wednesday. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, is expected to appeal the verdict.

The Guardian’s Sam Levine has been in court over the last several weeks covering all the developments – here are three testimonies he found most memorable. 

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Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:23:33 +0000
The move, which hits electric vehicles, carries an environmental cost
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Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:00:59 +0000
It sets the stage for a nasty new Trump-China clash, among other things
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Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:59:46 +0000
Expensive oil could put Donald Trump in the White House
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Europe’s economy is under attack from all sides
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:00:46 +0000
First Putin, now Xi. Next Trump?
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The world is in the midst of a city-building boom
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:22:29 +0000
Everyone, from Donald Trump and Peter Thiel to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is getting involved
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Apple Is Coming for Your Password Manager
Sat, 08 Jun 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: A media executive is charged in an alleged money-laundering scheme, a ransomware attack disrupts care at London hospitals, and Google’s former CEO has a secretive drone project up his sleeve.
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After Training African Coup Leaders, Pentagon Blames Russia for African Coups
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 17:03:42 +0000

The U.S. has trained 15 coup leaders in recent decades — and U.S. counterterrorism policies in the region have failed.

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European banks are making heady profits in Russia
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 09:56:28 +0000
But for how much longer?
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Exclusive: The Guardian interviews President Zelenskiy
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:48:04 GMT

In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, revealed the tactics and traits that help him face the daily frustrations of leading a country at war for more than two years.

Within a ceremonial room inside Kyiv’s presidential compound, Zelenskiy spoke for nearly an hour with a Guardian team, including the editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner. The interview took place during perhaps the toughest time for Ukraine since the early days of the war. Russia is on the offensive in Kharkiv, an advance that follows months of delay in the US Congress over the passing of a major support package, limiting Ukraine’s battlefield capabilities

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A US Company Enabled a North Korean Scam That Raised Money for WMDs
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:30:00 +0000
Wyoming’s secretary of state has proposed ways of “preventing fraud and abuse of corporate filings by commercial registered agents” in the aftermath of the scheme’s exposure.
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US says Russia likely launched anti-satellite weapon
Wed, 22 May 2024 04:22:18 GMT
The Russian satellite launched last week may be capable of attacking other satellites, the Pentagon says.
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Russia’s gas business will never recover from the war in Ukraine
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:04:48 +0000
Hopes of a Chinese rescue look increasingly vain
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Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine’s war
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:54:20 +0000
And America now hopes to convince others to make better use of the stash
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Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:51:54 +0000
The world’s third-largest producer is now an importer of petrol
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How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:52:43 +0000
Assessing the economic threat posed by the anti-Western axis
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Russia’s economy once again defies the doomsayers
Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:39:48 +0000
As an election nears, Vladimir Putin now looks to have inflation under control
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What can I do if I can't pay my energy bill?
Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:03:18 GMT
If you're struggling to afford your gas and electricity bills, what options are available?
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Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.
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How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:31:35 +0000
Digital twins, nuclear fusion and the small matter of fixing China’s economy
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Wild west: a walk on Brittany’s rugged Crozon peninsula
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 06:00:25 GMT

The fishing villages, clifftop paths and sandy coves of the Breton coast provide the perfect backdrop for a five-day hike

They say walking is the best medicine and you could spend months walking off your troubles along the sentier des douaniers (customs officers’ path), which winds for more than 1,240 miles (2,000km) around the bays and headlands of the Breton coast. However, me and my perennial walking companion, an Irishman who lives in Bath, settled for a five-day, 55-mile stretch along the southern Crozon peninsula.

As we agreed not to fly, he took the train to Plymouth, the ferry to Roscoff and buses from there, while I took the train from Barcelona and, after a night in Paris, another train to Quimper and a bus to our starting point at Camaret-sur-Mer.

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Weightlifting at retirement age keeps legs strong years later, study finds
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 22:30:16 GMT

Year of heavy weights resistance training around retirement age has long-lasting benefits, research suggests

Lifting heavy weights three times a week around the age of retirement could dramatically preserve your leg strength long into the later stages of life, research suggests.

People naturally lose muscle function as they get older, and experts say faltering leg strength is a strong predictor of death in elderly people.

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Top 10 Best PLR(Private Label Rights) Websites | Which One You Should Join in 2022?
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